Smart Integration Award

The dental profession is becoming increasingly more female. That is shown by statistics from universities on a global level. In some countries, there are already more female dentists or female dental technicians than their male colleagues. For Dentsply Sirona, it is important to work closely with dental experts on a global level, in order to take their individual desires and requirements into consideration when developing products and professional development programs. We would particularly like to promote the growing target group of female dentists and dental technicians by offering an exclusive development program in the area of Smart Integration for the first time.

We are of course also interested in your opinion as a male dentist or male dental technician. Are you interested in exchanging information with us about innovations and ideas? Then register with us as an expert. You can learn more about this at dentsplysirona.com/expert-development

Since the 90s, digitization and networking have increasingly become an integral part of the dental practice. This is primarily due to the desire to ensure quick and safe workflows. Dentsply Sirona provides support with its solutions so everything fits together perfectly. It can be seen during diagnosis, treatment planning or the treatment itself just how smart the processes can be. We would like to work with our customers in the future to further develop this evolution.

Digital Clinical Workflows:

In this category, your existing successful treatment concepts or visions of smart ways of working will be awarded. Do you already use digital and innovative technologies during your treatments or for treatment planning and diagnosis to offer outstanding and esthetic results for your patients? Have you implemented solutions into your practice that have improved outcomes for your team or patients? Is it a specific solution or software that makes the difference for your patient and in your clinic or is there a combination of essential products that you have determined ideally support this workflow efficiency? What are you passionate about in your workflow? Do you have an idea how to optimize diagnosis process, treatment planning or the treatment workflow for you and your team through digital solutions, integrated functions or connected devices? We are looking forward to your entry in this category.

Digital Patient Communication:

Do you use digital technology and tools to show and discuss treatment options with your patients? A monitor or intraoral camera directly at your treatment center are nothing new to you? Does including your patients in treatment planning increase their engagement or compliance? If you already use digital solutions today to communicate with your patients or use connected devices for a better patient experience, we are looking forward to your entry in this category. You can also talk about your idea or vision on how to inform your patients more efficiently and more convincingly in the future.

Innovative Infection Control and Prevention:

Hygiene in the dental office has always been of high importance. During this challenging time especially, topics like aerosol reduction, hygienic preparation of surfaces or correct disinfection and sterilization of your dental instruments has become more important than ever. Share your concept of infection control and prevention in your office with us. Do you use digital solutions to optimize your concept? Do you have ideas or visions on how to create workflows that are time-efficient and more accurate for you and your team? We are looking forward to your concept of today or tomorrow.

Management of Dental Equipment:

You have an idea on how to better manage and oversee the operational readiness of your dental equipment? Smart workflows and innovative solutions are daily business for the management of your devices. You keep track of regular maintenance and your stock of consumables and make sure that everything is properly documented? Then we are looking forward to your future vision or existing success story about device and application management in your dental office.

Smart Laboratory-Dentist Cooperation

Are you a female dental technician or dentist striving to minimize patient appointments or treatment duration using digital procedures and team cooperation? Have you optimized your workflow between dental office and laboratory and are hence able to offer cost-efficient, smooth patient experience? Then you are the right candidate for this category. Explain which requirements for a smart cooperation between dental technician and dentist have to be fulfilled and which digital solutions and software you use. You can also give us an insight of your successful teamwork with challenging patient cases that seem difficult to manage at first. What is it that makes your collaboration successful and how to do you overcome larger distances and still manage to cooperate closely? We are looking forward to your entry.

1. Completing a questionnaire about yourself and your practice or lab (answering the questions will take approximately 20 minutes)
   
   
2.  A description of the story of your success and/or your vision for the future in one or more of the 5 categories:
   

• Digital Clinical Workflow
• Digital Patient Communication
• Innovative Infection Control and Prevention
• Management of Dental Equipment
• Smart Lab-Dentist Cooperation